So I got another Spotpass house (from Nintendo) last night. Krys or Kyrs or something. You guys should have gotten it too. How does Nintendo do this? Do they create a town and persona and then distribute it or do they pick a random house from a fan and distribute it instead?

I also got the silver slingshot shortly afterwards. Not too useful, considering I already have all but one or two pieces of the balloon furniture series, including the paper/flooring, and the balloon hat, but it's the thought that counts.

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Yes; for instance, that he gold slingshot shoots 3 pellets at the same time (the silver, 2). The gold axe never breaks, it's easier to catch fish/bugs with the gold rod/net, the gold watering can waters more spaces.

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Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it - Mark Twain

There is only one real piece of art out of the 4 offered. If you know about art and know the pieces, you can actually examine them and spot the fake ones because they are different than the real world piece. For instance, there is a famous statue of a wolf suckling Romulus and Remus as kids. The real one has them both, but the fake one only has one of them. I like the challenge of trying to spot the real one out of them.

This is my first Animal Crossing game. Is there anything to do besides chores? My routine each time I play is to collect sea shells, fish, bugs, fruit, etc. and sell them, but why I'm trying to make money I'm not sure. A bigger house, perhaps, but the house is the last place I want to be when I'm playing the game.

Is there a slow buildup to more interesting gameplay or is it collect stuff/chat with townspeople ad nauseum?

This is my first Animal Crossing game. Is there anything to do besides chores? My routine each time I play is to collect sea shells, fish, bugs, fruit, etc. and sell them, but why I'm trying to make money I'm not sure. A bigger house, perhaps, but the house is the last place I want to be when I'm playing the game.

Is there a slow buildup to more interesting gameplay or is it collect stuff/chat with townspeople ad nauseum?

Have you gotten access to the island yet? There are minigames to play there, but what you described is mostly what the game has to offer. The point of the game is to collect stuff and sell it in order to get money to spend on building and furnishing your house and improving the town. If you're not enjoying collecting the bugs/fish/etc. and decorating your house and the town, you're probably not going to enjoy the game.

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"Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same side." - The Big Bang Theory

To enjoy this game, it is important to relax and not force yourself to do stuffs just to earn enough bells for the next upgrade or project. Just have fun do anything you feel like doing at the moment. The only "chore" that I'm doing daily is to go to the store and buy the fortune cookies. Other activities are optional. I only dig up stuffs if I walk nearby and notice them. I only water flowers when I want to. I also bring my 3DS everywhere I go so that I can just play for a few minutes then put it back to sleep mode.

The other way to play is to set a goal for yourself then try to do it.

Example of goals you can set for yourself:1. Collect a full set of furnitures for your home.2. Rearrange your fruit trees so that you have separate sections of each type of fruits instead of just plant fruit randomly.3. To own all kind of fruit trees in your town.4. Decorate your town with flowers.5. Have animal residents which each is a different animal type (no two bears for example). Or you can do the opposite and have all your animal residents from the same animal type.

-- unlock QR code reader and start putting nice imported photos on your walls and paths in your town-- Collect gold nuggets to get turned into gold furniture-- Get your HHA score high enough to unlock gold house features-- Collect cool stuff-- turn your town into a theme. There's a fairly famous town on the internet you can visit via Dream Suite that is very creepy and has a haunted type feel to it.

I gotta get back into this. My real life had taken over for awhile, can't wait to get back to this life, it's more fun;). My villagers are gonna be pissed since the town is a mess I'm sure after a few days off...

So it's official. This game owns me and now my wife. I grabbed her a original 3ds for $139.00 at bestbuy and a copy of new leaf. She LOVED animal crossing on the original ds so this was a no brainer. Was gonna get a XL for her but, 1: I would have been envious of the larger screens and more importantly 2: $139.00! I will be literally playing this every single day for the next year or so now...

So wow. We played for 3 hrs before she got mad and looked at the clock and decided it was clearly to late for her to play any longer. That has never happened with her with a game that I can recall. This game is simply therapeutic. Almost zen like.